#STOPWASTECOLONIALISM

Waste colonialism is when a group of people uses waste and pollution to dominate another group of people in their homeland. The term was first recorded in 1989 at the United Nations Environmental Programme Basel Convention when African nations expressed concern about the dumping of hazardous waste by high GDP countries into low GDP countries. Waste Colonialism is typically used to describe the domination of land for the use of disposa

https://stopwastecolonialism.org/

Listen to this #PlasticsTreaty Shorts episode by @plastisphere

I spoke to @anja about waste colonialism and the call for a strong global #PlasticsTreaty to ensure that all countries are responsible for how they produce, use and dispose of their waste.

🛑#StopWasteColonialism

https://m.soundcloud.com/plastisphere-podcast/plastic-treaty-colonialism

#stopwastecolonialism "Traders in the world's largest secondhand clothes market want reparations for chronic pollution caused by fast fashion" https://www.context.news/socioeconomic-inclusion/rags-not-riches-ghana-drowns-in-western-castoffs

Countries in the global north should find better solutions to their waste problems instead of exporting it to the global south.
No country should be using another as a dumping ground for its waste.
#StopWasteColonialism.

✊🏿 Africa is not a dumping ground.
#EndPlasticPollution